Ever wonder why not many Asians are joining Second Life????

Hi everyone, I am posting this here because this really needs some attention.

Now, it may not affect you personally, but if you pay attention, it could provide a great deal for the second life community.

Ive been living in Korea for the past 5 years now (Actually ready to come home cuz I miss the rockies)
and, during my stay, Ive noticed something quite interesting about SL,

even though the number of Korean's using second life is increasing daily, there still is a small number existing in our Second Life community.

Expanding our community is important I beleive, because the more interest there is for SL, the stronger and better the platform will become. no?

So why is the adoption rate of SL low in Asia? well.. let's take a lookie shall we?

(Im quite astonished as to why linden lab has ignored what I am about to reveal, and has not made it as one of their top priorities...)
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Here it comes: Guess what? If you install Second Life on a computer with Korean Windows xp... with the defaults loaded (99% of home computers in korea that is)


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Did you hear that?
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I said, Second Life installed in Korea, on Korean computers

C.R.A.S.H
C.R.A.S.H
C.R.A.S.H

That's right,

99% of Korean users CAN NOT RUN SL
99% of Korean users CAN NOT RUN SL
99% of Korean users CAN NOT RUN SL
99% of Korean users CAN NOT RUN SL


(So how do I know this) - easy, for the past year I have been going to from local Korean PC room to local Knorea (pc room) trying to load SL, and guess what? On install I get a lovely:

CRASH message...
So, I shift to the next computer, and next computer until finally after the fifth one, I give up and go home!!!!


Talk about one hell of a barrier to entry for the people in Asia heh!

-- hey guys - try Second Life its so great- Especially our nice "Crash message" (heh which is in English)


So ... why does this happen?
Well.. finally, after talking with one of the Korean groups in sl, I found out that - if your Windows XP name happens to by typed in with Korean letters, the Second Life Client doesnt seam to like it - so gues what? CRASH CRASH CRASH! Am I getting the point across???

----- even more interesting to note - every computer sold here in Korea comes with the Default OS - windows XP - in KOREAN with a KOREAN user name!

--- how many people know how to go to control panel, edit user settings, and change your user name???

-- even a better question, how many people would actually be bothered to do that, and how many Game rooms in Korea would actually go and do it???


LINDEN LABS !!!! PLEASE READ THIS MESSAGE!!!!!

I KNOW YOU ARE GREAT GUYS AND GALS, AND WE ALL LOVE YOU AND KNOW YOU ARE WORKING YOUR BUTTS OFF TO GIVE US A GREAT PROGRAM, AND WE APPRECAIATED IT

BUT, IF YOU WANT SECOND LIFE (AS I DO) TO PROSPER IN OTHER COUNTRIES OTHER THAN JUST THE WESTERN ONES, PAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEZ

TAKE SOME TIME AND FIX THIS BUG

so the rest of asia can join in on the fun!!!

thanks --- asia is a huge market - lets play nice!!!!!

I see you did the right thing and entered a bug in Jira, https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-3058 in case people want to vote.

I assume you were already using the Korean translation stuff for SL?

Have you posted this in the JIRA??

So what was the problem again?

Thanks for posting the link to the Jira Issue I wrote, I actually thought I had already submitted it, but was mistaken - so wrote it after this post.

Let's cross our fingers that it gets fixed SOON!!!!

(Oh by the way, I am not Korean, the only reason I discovered this bug was because I was trying to demo SL over here in Korea, and it never seamed to install with out crashing - great demo! hahaha)

Its just not koreans crashing. I said this about the japanese client as well and voice. Twas a nightmare when the refer sight from a commerical paid sights send the new users voice client then the non voice at that time.